THE BIRDS OF AUSTRALIA. 
suggests. It may have been a mental aberration, and for this idea we have 
the parallel case of Glossoptilus goldiei Rothschild and Hartert. In the 
latter case, Hartert wrote the genus-name as given instead of Glossopsittacus 
or Glossopsitta. It was later written that probably some worker would 
generieally separate goldiei, so that a name is already provided should that 
course be adopted and should Opopsitta be accepted. I have considered the 
latter case from all points of view, and at one time, accepting Ogilvie-Grant’s 
standpoint, proposed as a substitute Manopsitta. Again reviewing the matter 
I continue the usage of Opopsitta, but give the following notes on the species. 
I criticised the birds and made my notes as hereafter given, and afterwards 
found that Salvadori had practically made the same disposition but did not 
provide names. This seems very strange, as otherwise Salvadori separated 
pure colour-genera, and moreover, such as might easily have been overlooked 
by the most extreme splitter. 
In the present instance I find four distinct groups easily recognisable. 
Opopsitta I have already described in detail, and to this group belongs the 
Australian leadbeateri, which at one time, following Hartert, I only sub- 
specifically separated, but now regard it as quite of specific value. 
Manopsitta, which at present includes coxeni alone, may be considered 
as a subgenus, but probably later it will be given generic rank. The species 
is larger than typical Opopsitta, with comparatively shorter wings, and the 
second primary longest, the first being equal to the third ; the tail is 
comparatively longer, both the under and upper tail-coverts being also 
longer, the former about equal to the tail ; the feet are comparatively smaller, 
being about the same size as those of the typical species. The bill is heavier, 
with the face of the under-mandible three-ridged. 
A series of birds classed in Cyclopsittacus have the cere feathered : in 
addition they are larger birds with projecting bills of narrower contour, the 
under-mandible with the face multi-ridged. The wing is long with the 
wing-formula of Manopsitta, but the tail is longer, more wedge-shaped, the 
feathers pointed and the two middle tail-feathers much more elongate ; 
the feet are comparatively large. As a secondary adjunct, in some cases they 
have developed a facial ornament of long feathers on the cheeks and ear- 
coverts. This group is as well marked as any genus of Parrots, and I consider 
it of much better value than, say, Eutelipsitta or Charmosynopsis. I therefore 
provide for it the new genus-name 
Cbuopsitta, 
and name Cyclopsittacus edwardsii Oustalet as type. The forms blythi, 
occidentalis and desmaresti, as determined in the British Museum Collection, 
belong here, all agreeing in the general characters given above. In the 
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